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A Military Historical Website
Page maintained and created by Wilfried Braakhuis
Completed: 1 Januari 1998.
Address: http://www.worldwar-2.eu
This site is best viewed in high color mode and 1152*864 resolution.
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WW II Forum,
Participate in our WW 1939-1945 Forum, for detailed study of the war, and is
especially useful to the reader seeking to put a given subject or campaign into
wider historical context. Americanism Award,
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for outstanding contributions to Americanism principles. Mailinglist,
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monthly! Military Sites
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community, see the Distinguished Military Site Award. Simple message board,
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responding messages.
HistoryChannel,
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index of the best history sites on the Web. Shortened address,
Our war site has two registered addresses, the shortened forms of the full local
address are: www.worldwar-2.eu (10-4-2006) and www.worldwar2history.net
(7-10-2001). USA TODAY Education,
This is to inform you The World at War, History of WW 1939-1945 Web Site has
been selected as a "Best Bet" on the USA TODAY Education Web site from 9-15
April 2002. USA TODAY Education serves as a gateway to valuable information and
resources for the total learning environment.









This Web site is intended for enthusiasts of World War II, a period now far
behind us. The text has been written using our own judgement and should be
easily understood by everybody. The reader is taken back in time and feels that
he was actually present when the events took place, a new and compelling way of
experiencing the events of World War II. Every possible care has been taken to
ensure that the facts are presented accurately, although new developments could
of course shed new light on the matter. Every such work as The World at War,
history of WW 1939-1945 is an attempt to walk the tightrope between the fullest
possible and the most accessible description of the period. Our aim has been to
provide a basic source of information for these vastly important and often
misrepresented years, enabling students to orient themselves rapidly or the
general reader to browse through the entries following a theme by use of the
cross-references. The chronologies, too, have been designed for this dual
purpose. However, we are very confident that this story will make a contribution
to history, a contribution which will benefit mankind in the future. We hope you
will like it.
The objective of our site is to provide you with a vast catalogue of interesting
resources including WW II links throught the WWW, you may search the whole site
using keywords or names, use these resources to recreate the atmosphere of the
time 1939-1945. Once you become acquainted with the features, you will be
navigating this complex and bewildering war in a clear, easy-to-understand and
exciting way.

We list only sites that contain a substantial amount of information. If you
would like to include your favorite link or WW II site or if you know of other
interesting related sites please tell us simply
elite-engineer-publishing@worldwar-2.eu, send it to us. We hope you enjoy your
stay.





Never has there been a war that could have been avoided more easily than the one
that has just destroyed (1939 - 1945) whatever was left of the world after the
previous confrontation (1914 -1918).

When World War II began in 1939, Germany was the aggressor, it was later joined
in June 1940, by Italy, and Japan in December 1941. The war against Japan was
fought over two-thirds of the world's surface, with America and her allies
taking part in vast air, land and sea battles. It turned WW II into global
conflict and ended it with the drawning of nuclear era. Together they formed the
major Axis nations, each had their strenghts and weakness. From 1900 until the
late 1930's the armies of the world believed that massed infantry charges, heavy
artillery, and static defenses could dominate and control any battlefield. But
on the morning of September 1st 1939, the world was forever changed as Germany
invaded Poland and executed its first "Blitzkrieg" or "Lightning attack",
quickly crushing Polish resistance. And the entry of France and Britain into the
conflict on 3 September, marked not so much the beginning of a new war as
opening of a more intensive phase of a war that already in progress. A possible
opinion was that it had never stopped at all during the years since 1914. A more
moderate view, might take the outbreak of the Spanish revolt in July 1936 as the
starting point. But to any informed observer it was at least clear that the
struggle had waged, bloodlessly but with growing intensity, for a considerable
period before the resort to armed hostilities.

From 1939 to 1945, Germany's military machine struck out and conquered most of
Western Europe, swept into deserts of North Africa and drove deep into the
hinterlands of Russia. In time, however, the Allies gathered strength and
eventually crushed the German Army and Axis powers with a display of brute force
that has remained unmatched to this day. What started out as a war based on
military technical tactics and blitzkriegs, later became a war reliant on
industry and mass production.
The western offensive has learned the German much, though they will not remember
all the lessons. They have seen the movement of heavy armoured vehicles, and the
battlefield tactics they could employ, significantly reduced by unhelpful
terrain and the most modest of road obstructions; columns of such machines have
also often been badly delayed by human traffic, in the form of fleeing refugees.
With command of the air and relatively light resistance, however, the Blitzkrieg
technique has been proven; the tempo of advance has been unprecedented and,
indeed, caused its own, unforeseen logistical problems. But the success of the
Battle of France may have proved to be the Germans' undoing for they expect
future battlefields to be equally susceptible to these techniques and when this
proves not to be the case some of its finest commanders will be found wanting,
their one-dimensional approach not being effective in defence or retreat.
Furthermore, the rapid defeat of France has focused Allied minds. Had they been
able to hold their ground for longer, old strategies might have been clung to
and new equipment might not have been urgently demanded. For the French, the
last weeks have been a chastening experience. Their industry has broken all
manufacturing records to keep the armed forces suppilied, but political
foresight and military resolve have been absent. It is indicative that their air
force ends the Battle of France with more aircraft than when it started, thanks
to that manufacturing spurt accompanied by the logistical failure to deploy what
was available.

The deeds of the Japanese extremists and of Hitler and Mussolini, which led up
to martial conflict, are the positive points of the story, but they are not more
of it than the negative points, the ability of democracy to understand the
nature of peace and to cope with the swelling flood of aggression. Peace itself
might have been preserved if men of good will who were leading the democracies
had also been men of good sense. It would make a poor understanding of the world
crisis if these failures were not continually borne in mind.

Victory won over evil, we have still not found peace or safety and we are still
in the grip of dangers which are even worse than the ones we have survived. I
seriously hope that a careful consideration of the past may show us the way in
the years to come, that it will enable the new generation to make up for the
errors (against animals and wildlife too, not only people) committed in the past
and that they will thus be able to rule this vast, rapidly developing world, in
accordance with the needs and the dignity of mankind, with the help of all the
numerous new technological developments at our disposal, such as nuclear energy
and electronics, and all their benefits.

PARTICIPATE IN OUR WW II FORUM,

The 1939-1945 war is pure history, and a topic we should all understand and be
able to discuss. This message board for WWII enthusiasts is devoted to exchange
ideas about any topic dealing with the WW 1939-1945 history. Have a question
about the WW military history 1939-1945, or some other WW II military issue?
The World at War, history of WW 1939-1945 message-board to share your
experiences or seek help from others.
May each of you establish and enjoy a congenial relationship with all members of
the The World at War, history of WW 1939-1945 Delphi Forum.

I have designed a simple message board for WW II friends to post short messages,
answer or just read messages.



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HISTORYCHANNEL NETWORK,

HistoryChannel.com has just launched a new feature called the HistoryChannel.com
Network, which is a searchable, categorized index of the best history sites on
the Web. HistoryChannel.com receives over 700,000 visitors monthly and The World
at War, history of WW 1939-1945 is invited to be added in this searchable index.

AMERICANISM AWARD,

The American Legion Post 694, Americanism Award is reserved for those sites that
have as their theme americanism in any of its many wonderful faces. Any site
receiving this award must show America in a favorable light and display a
excellent set of authoring skills.
The Amercian Legion Monterey Cypress Post 694 of Marina, California has reviewed
'The World at War, history of WW 1939-1945' website and found it to be in
keeping with the theme of helping to make a better America.
The Americanism Award has a long history of distinguished honorees and is one of
the highest awards bestowed by the organization.

USA TODAY EDUCATION,

The USA TODAY Education general interest news site offers educators, parents and
students robust activities, ideas and links directly related to daily news
stories. It is one of the most popular and extensive sites on the World Wide
Web, featuring more than 140.000 pages of up-to-the-minute news with about
11.000.000 unique visitors to the site each month!
When a site is recognized a USA TODAY Education "Best Bet" Web site, a staff of
education specialists looked for Web sites that can bring unique and useful
resources and information to the classroom in an intriguing way. The site must
be appropriate, factual and relevant to teachers, students and parents. Fewer
than 150 sites are selected each year as USA TODAY Education "Best Bet" Web
sites.



THE BEST WW II SITE 2019,

The best site 2019 is chosen by me, Wilfried Braakhuis, and my friends of Elite
Engineer Publishing, Jan Willem Westra en Arnoud Zuidema.
We found the presentation of this elite site at the Internet very valuable, and
therefore I would like to bestow the 'Pañstwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau' site
with the best WW II site 2019 in the category history WW 1939-1945; the murder
of minority races.

Pañstwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau;
http://en.auschwitz.org.pl/m/
This Museum site is about concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, a symbol of
terror, genocide, and the Holocaust. The camp Auschwitz-Birkenau became the site
of the greatest mass murder in the history of humanity, which was committed
against the European Jews, blacks, many other minorities and POWs as part of
Hitler's plan for the complete destruction of that people.

STRATEGY OF THE WAR,

There is a lot of bad information about the war. Some of it was done during the
War to confuse the enemy, some of it was done after the War to protect
reputations, and some of it is just sloppy research and writing.



THE MILITARY ASPECTS,

This is an apolitical page dealing with the military aspects of the WW II only
and nothing more, does not support any political thought and no support should
be assumed.



ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,

I would like to thank the following people, who have provided invaluable
assistance in preparing this home page: Jan Willem Westra (translation,
publishing), research assistance of Arnoud Zuidema (historical research) and
others. To all go appreciation and thanks. We should furthermore like to thank
all the very many others that have made a site on World War II. These are
invaluable as a reference to our site. So if you have any comments or
suggestions or if you see any new links on World War II added to this site,
please e-mail us.
I personally supervise the business management further.
We are free to all sorts of criticism, praise, corrections and general feedback,
or most importantly things you'd like to contribute or specific items you would
like to see in these pages, please let us know!. If you have a favourite site
you think we should feature, or any topics you'd like to see covered in these
pages, please email.







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Page maintained and created by Wilfried Braakhuis.
Associate Professor of History University of Twente.
Copyright © 1998-2020 Wilfried Braakhuis. All rights reserved.
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© 1998-2020, and protected by Elite Engineer Publishing, Netherlands law for
"The World at War, history of WW 1939-1945".



Whoever lights the torch of War in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.
Adolf Hitler, May 21 1935